Clear Thinking and Clear Speaking

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1886

Clear Thinking and Clear Speaking

THERE is only one way to attain the power of clear writing or of clear speaking, and that way is through clear thinking. When a Sunday-school teacher comes before his class and talks for twenty minutes, without making a single clear statement of truth in that time, the trouble is not so much with his inability to say what he wants to say, as with the mental sloth which has prevented him from forming a clear conception of the truth to be taught. There is really, after all, no better rule for clear speaking than the epigrammatic one: Know exactly what you want to say, and then—say it.—S. S. Times.